REcreating vintage techno sounds

The ongoing project by Nick and Robin from the HKU Multi Media School, regarding the midi to cv protocol for all the synths at our studio (arp 2500, arp 2600, putney, serge and korg ms 20), is leading us to interesting places, about tuning and syncing in particular...
in this clip we have the concussor, arp 2600 and ms 20 pretty tight....

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Basshaters in the Studio end of january

Here the very actif duo from sunny san fransisco, the basshaters, imagining themselves in wonderland, where there is no bass, just noise, pink noise, white noise, noise noise....

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IN THE NEW YEAR - 2010

Of course our audio workplace is open, from the beginning of january we were at it.
Here a group of kids teachers to be, being introduced to WORM and the word EXPERIMENTAL in particular: Study the effect it has on the young women...(it explains why we had 2 security gards present) here in this movie the students are about to participate in the annual WORM Name Seeking Challenge: indeed, the WORMstudio should be called (......) we think the WORMstudio shouldnt be called ( SoundLAB, WORMStudio): you think it should be called ???

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SOUNDTRACK FOR THE MOVIE

Indeed we're currently working on the Ctrl-Alt-Esc- From Rotterdam, the WORM feature film, the theme song. Hajo is demonstrating his one of many skills: typewriting a melody line in logic pro.

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FIELDRECORDING WORKSHOP UPDATE

OUR THREE PART WORKSHOP HAS ENDED AND WAS OVERALL CONCEIVED AS A GOOD AND PRODUCTIF COLLAB BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS AND ORGANISERS, WITH THANKS TO JUSTIN AND DEREK. LATER WE WILL COMPILE THE AUDIOMATERIAL MADE BY THE PARTICIPANTS INTO AN HOUR RADIOWORM SPECIAL.

IN THE CLIPS BELOW WE'RE LISTENING TO THE FINISHED PIECES, IN THE STUDIO AND IN THE VENUE FOR AN CONCENTRATED AUDIENCE.

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future,present and past of dubstep but better and stand alone

and so economically nicer too. ...

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Yan Jun_Wu Na_FM3 Zhang and XiaoH Recording

Interesting quartet from china, having a recording session at the studio. They presented themselves for a full house at sunday with a great show. Upcoming RadioWORM is about Contemporary Music in China (part two) Thanks to Yan Yun and FM3 Zhang.

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Derek Holzer At The Serge

Derek had an intensive two weeks at the WORM labs: ardour manual sprint and workshop at the MODDR lab, in between a lecture on field recording and he spent a week at our sound lab, studying the Serge. Here's a demo track and a short movie.

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Fieldrecording Workshop Underway

The Fieldrecording Workshop started last week with an inspiring lecture from Derek Holzer, taking us from birdview to fly perspectif into the many facets and points of view of fieldrecording.

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STU in studio

STU was for ever (2 days) tuning the arp 2500 to his liking, the only way to tame the beast...
Here's a demotrack!

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WORM STUDIO FIELDRECORDING STARTING SOON

Invitation;
Join our field-recording workshop about the practical and artistic ways of field recordings and how to apply them into a soundwork.
With Derek Holzer and Justin Bennet and the WORMstudio team

 The starting point is to create a field recording soundpiece¹.

MIDI IMPLEMENT PART TWO

With the arrival of two HKU sound design students, robin and nick, who will do an 10 week internship at the WORMstudio, the midi implementation takes a higher gear. Watch the coming weeks the progression we make, starting with ableton live and max for live patches, using two kentons to connect to the arp, the korg, the putney. We promise christmas tunes, cheeky arrangements and brandnew ringtones.

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Rurality

Plurality more likely, wherever they go the camera follows, but here they are from argentina, Los Siquicos Literalenos: jamming in the studio as if at home.

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LosSiquicosLiteralenos

Peter Wiessenthaner

We invited Peter Wiesenthaner to work a few days in the Studio and make a bit of sound design for a Radioplay project that is probably gonna be finished & broadcasted next january. After producing some very beautiful sounds and talking about wintersport Peter found time to relax and befriend the two WORM-studio slaves, Henk & Lukas. here they are, looking very relaxed. (again). Some sound will be posted later.

Into The Cool season (again)

September 14 till 20: Jesse O (Sullivan) in the studio. Taking half our gear for a ride. Here 's a fresh tune he's working on with the audio solutions concussor as the central piece. Three movies here: "at least the midi works"; "fresh tune" and "till Live crashes"
Jesse's Performing at the Incubate Fest in Tilburg later this week.

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JesseOattheStudio

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